Posted on 04/14/2020 11:13:00 AM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
State Rep. Vernon Jones bucked his party Tuesday and endorsed President Donald Trump, making him the first state elected Democratic official in Georgia to back the Republican’s bid for a second term.
A polarizing figure in Georgia politics, the DeKalb County legislator told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that he was not switching parties but that he views Trump as a transformative figure who has helped African American voters, military veterans and farmers with his policies. “It’s very simple to me. President Trump’s handling of the economy, his support for historically black colleges and his criminal justice initiatives drew me to endorse his campaign,” Jones said. “This is not about switching parties. There are a lot of African Americans who clearly see and appreciate he’s doing something that’s never been done before,” Jones added. “When you look at the unemployment rates among black Americans before the pandemic, they were at historic lows. That’s just a fact.”
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I didn’t create the term. The late Molly Ivins, the infamous left-wing columnist from Texas, did. It still fits, given that he was a twig off the old Bush. Another Derp Stater selling out our country.
Puffy, try to keep up. He endorsed your favorite guy Dubya way back in 2000 AND 2004 and they didn’t kick him out then. He won the CEO position of DeKalb County at the same exact time.
https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=14083
That’s a lie.
I’m not in Texas, but Nashville. Our local leftist rag, The Tennessean, hired a Ivins disciple to be a columnist. His name was Tim Chavez. They thought he’d be spewing a bunch of typical racist, La Raza, Stalinist drivel you’d come to expect from the moonbats. Instead, Chavez began moving towards the center (to the paper’s horror), and when he developed cancer (leukemia, as it turned out), they used it as an excuse to fire him. He died two years later and they pretended like he never existed. Classy folks.
Now if shrub would join him in endorsing President Trump!
I’m done with the Bushes. Shrub considers the Butcheress of Benghazi to be his sister. Let them all hang together.
He’s a black man endorsing Trump. In some areas in black community, that’s a death sentence.
I live in a Black VRA district, Hoss. Some non-Communist Blacks in these districts have to run as Democrats in order to win. My former Black Dem lady State Senator here made most of your so-called Republicans in New Jersey look like Bella Abzug.
I think I know the NJ State Senator you are talking about. I live in NJ.
Nia Gill, or Shirley Turner. She is the only black female in that area.
I’m well aware of the state you live in, Hoss. I’m in Tennessee, which I’ve only mentioned a few thousand times. I said MY ex-State Senator in Nashville, a Black Dem lady, made most of YOUR New Jersey Republicans “RINOs” look like Bella Abzug. But since your RINOs run all over each other trying to out-left the other in running away from our excellent President, you don’t have much of a party left (or your Demonrats trying to out-Stalinist one another).
Sadly, my new State Senator, who is well to the left of my former, is far to the right of your Demonrats, and she is still too ludicrously left-wing.
Ping
Awesome!
Like him.
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